Park all day in East Devon council car parks for just £2 this winter
Exmouth Town Hall reception to reopen
It's not too late to join us for a day of history and culture tomorrow in Honiton
New bus service from Pinhoe to Exeter Airport launches on Monday
Here's how to have a fun time this Halloween without taking a terrifying toll on the environment
News and updates:
Park all day in East Devon council car parks for £2 this winter
From next Tuesday, 1 November you are able to park in multiple locations for the whole day for just £2.00. All East Devon District Council car parks across the district are eligible for this unbeatable offer.
To find an EDDC car park near you, click here. Both cash and card payments are accepted. If you are using the RingGo app on your mobile, the location code is ‘42973’.
Although your printed ticket may not display an expiry time of midnight, it will still be valid for the whole day.
Following a decision by the council to reopen the town hall reception when staffing resources allowed. The council have now successfully recruited additional staff to enable the office to reopen.
From Monday, 5 December the reception at Exmouth Town Hall will be open Monday to Thursday from 9am to 1pm.
The council continues to operate an appointment system for people to meet with officers and more details on how to do this can be found here.
You are invited to come along to an afternoon of music, dance, food and history to mark the 50th anniversary of the British Ugandan Asians’ arrival at Heathfield Resettlement Camp in Honiton, Devon.
Tomorrow, Saturday, 29 October from 10:00am until 4:00pm.
Want to learn even more about the history of the 1600 Asians who were housed for 6 months at the former army camp?
Pay a visit to the exhibition at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, now on until the 29 October 2022.
New bus service from Pinhoe to Exeter Airport launches on Monday
Devon County Council (DCC) is pleased to announce a new multi-modal interchange opening at Pinhoe Rail Station on Monday, 31 October 2022. The £250,000 project has been funded jointly by DCC and South Western Railway as part of their Customer and Communities Improvement Fund. The new facility will have the following key features:
For peak hour rail arrivals / departures at Pinhoe (eastbound and westbound trains arrive/depart at approx. same time), there will be a new minibus service transporting passengers between Pinhoe Station (from the new car park north of the rail line) and Exeter Science Park (on Anning Road), Clyst Honiton Village (for Lidl / Amazon), Clyst Honiton Bypass (for SkyPark) and Exeter Airport*. Special bus fares will be available from Pinhoe Station to holders of valid rail tickets.
12 new secure cycle lockers, which can be rented to allow people to leave their cycles overnight or people can use the new Co-Bikes dock just south of the railway line (docks at Science Park and Exeter Airport).
A 15-space car park north of the rail line aimed at relieving some of the local residential area on-street parking pressures with two disabled parking bays and two EV charging points. It also has a taxi waiting bay.
You are invited to find out more on Tuesday, 8 November at the Exeter Science Park Dome at 12:30pm, where tea and coffee will be available.
Here's how to have a fun time this Halloween without taking a terrifying toll on the environment
1. Instead of splashing out on a shop-bought costume, why not try:
Browse in a charity shop.
Renting one from a costume shop.
Creating a costume from items you already have.
Swapping with friends or siblings.
2. For maximum spooks and minimum environmental impact, try these ideas:
Turn the lights out and rely only on a few lamps or candles to create mood lighting.
Using coloured energy-saving light bulbs.
Get the kids involved and spend the afternoon creating creepy decorations from arts and crafts materials around the house. Make hand-print spiders and turn old egg cartons into bats.
3. If you want to make your Halloween super green, hand out more sustainable treats than sweets, such as pencils, apples, or raisins in cardboard boxes.
This won’t make you the most popular house on the street... so try to at least avoid highly-processed, individually wrapped sweets. Go for Fairtrade, or bake.
Send your kids out with a reusable bucket to collect their sweets, instead of buying new ones or using plastic bags.
4. In the UK we needlessly throw away 15 million pumpkins every year, with more than half of us binning the flesh after carving.
Bake a delicious pie or make a warming soup. The BBC has loads of pumpkin recipes ready to inspire you!
Don't leave your pumpkin out for wildlife - it'll do more harm than good. Pumpkins give hedgehogs diarrhoea and leave them dehydrated at a time when they need to be building their body weight.
Chuck your pumpkin in the compost heap if you have one.
An exciting opportunity to take forward East Devon District Council’s ambitious new cultural strategy and to deliver a shared vision and action plan for culture in East Devon.
Deadline is fast approaching. Get your application in before this Sunday.
How can your small business start its journey to net zero?
A breakfast meeting aimed at small businesses in East Devon to help them begin their transition to a low carbon economy was held yesterday, Thursday, 27 October at Exmouth town hall.
A recent survey by the South West business council showed that 80% of small to medium-sized enterprises had not started a carbon reduction plan due to the cost and lack of knowledge. 55% of businesses questioned understood that this was important to their customers but due to challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, this workstream had unsurprisingly slipped down the priority list. Another report showed that 83% of consumers are willing to pay more for products that are genuinely more sustainable, so there is certainly a demand out there.
A range of speakers covered this broad topic, with Jo Muncaster, from Exeter based City Science, detailing the changes coming in terms of financial reporting requirements for businesses. Kate Doodson, from Honiton based Cosmic, explaining how to kickstart your journey to a low carbon economy. Finally, Paul Gilbert, from South West manufacturing service, discussed the fully funded support offered to help businesses work out their carbon footprint, as well as a grant fund of £2500.
Here's how you can you start your journey to net zero:
Look at your areas of big expenditure, generally these are areas where you can make savings.
Start small. Begin by gathering data for one area and set a small reduction target, for example, to reduce business miles by 10%.
Look into 100% renewable energy as your main source.
Reduce your packaging, can you redesign it, use less or use plain materials instead of printed?
Do you need to send out so many letters, would online signing or emails suffice?
Can you reduce business miles? Does every meeting need to be in person?
Everything has a carbon impact including emails, can you set up a retention policy and delete unnecessary emails?
A cloud based server has a far smaller environmental impact than traditional servers, is this possible for your business?
What are you competitors doing? You don’t want to get left behind.
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LED update
Wellness Week was a smashing success
Thank you and a big well done to everyone who took part in Wellness Week 2022 across LED.
Looking after our physical and mental wellness whilst staying connected to our community is so important for a healthy lifestyle.
At LED there are so many fun ways to stay active with friends, colleagues and other local people that you may not even know about.
You could follow along with the LED team or take it at your own pace, it's your choice! Remember to ask for a 'Give it a Tri' stamp card at reception so you can mark you progress as you go.
Once you've completed all three, please donate to Mind by visiting our JustGiving page.
East Devon District Council also produce regular newsletters and news on different topics, in the last week we have issued the following which may be of interest:
Only 1/3 of pumpkins bought for carving are actually eaten! Carving pumpkins can have a reputation for not being the tastiest of vegetables, why not try turning your pumpkins into something delicious like pumpkin soup! Plus, they are a great source of vitamins A and C, iron and riboflavin.
Don't let your pumpkin go to waste, like the other 15 million pumpkins binned every Halloween!
Join over 30,000 people using our smartphone app and get simple personalised collection reminders, the latest collection updates and tell us about a missed collection.
Professor Liz Wells form the University of Plymouth will give a fascinating tour through the exhibition discussing its key themes and Ingrid Pollard’s approach to unearthing hidden histories.
Tomorrow, Saturday, 29 October from 5.00 - 6.30pm. £5 per person.
Learn all about how and why we get ill in the winter
Herbalist, Maggie Haworth's first workshop at Seaton Wetlands aims to enable an understanding of why and how we get ill in the winter.
Maggie delves into how a herbalists approach to treatments differs from that of conventional medicine.
The workshop will include practical demonstrations of three simple remedies that can be taken for colds and flu, and there will be tastings, information sheets, recipe sheets and a list of useful books and online resources.
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